Whether you’re starting your first household or upgrading your emergency supplies for an outdoor adventure, the best first aid kits can often help mitigate the damage of minor injuries and provide triage for everyday mishaps. They include items such as adhesive bandages, gauze, tweezers, antibiotic creams or sprays, ace bandages, relief for stings or bites, cold packs, splints and aloe vera for those days when you get a bit too much sun. Because it can seem a gargantuan task to select the kit that’s right for your needs, we’ve collected the top ten options available online. Life should be free of worry about whether you have supplies handy in case of immediate need.
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1. Coleman Camping First Aid Kit
While it’s compact enough to take along on the trail, this 205-piece kit fits anywhere in your life. It includes bandages from spot to butterfly closure, antiseptic towelettes, antibiotic cream, adhesive tape, gauze pads, tweezers, a reusable cold pack, non-latex gloves, finger splints, a razor blade, and safety pins. All of this is stowed in a durable case with a fabric cover measuring 6 by 7.75 by 2 inches. Whether you need a kit for hiking, home, the open water, or your vehicle, you can easily incorporate it into your existing supplies.
2. Portable All-Purpose First Aid Kit from Johnson & Johnson
Whether you’re taking a day trip, a sailing excursion, or starting on a journey There and Back Again, this 140-piece kit has everything you need to treat minor injuries, abrasions, bites and stings, and even muscle stiffness. Housed in the sturdy, hard plastic case with a convenient, molded grip, you’ll find an assortment of bandages, a half-ounce tube of Neosporin with pain reliever, a one-ounce tube of Benadryl itch reliever, rolled gauze, tape, acetaminophen tablets, an ice pack, two pairs of gloves, and a First Aid guide.
3. Pac-Kit by First Aid Only
This is the ultimate triage cabinet. Since it’s OSHA compliant, it’s ideal of school nurse’s offices or small business locations. However, it also makes an ideal survivalist first aid kit. If you’re planning to take some time off the grid, you want to be prepared to treat any small injuries that occur, because cuts, scrapes, and other minor mishaps can mean serious trouble if you’re off the beaten path. This 1000-piece kit is stocked with sterile gauze pads, trauma pads, tape, assorted bandages, antibiotic cream, disinfectant wipes, sting relief, surgical scissors, tweezers, and a guide to providing first aid.
4. 2-in-1 First Aid Kit by Swiss Safe
This kit is ideal for home and travel of all sorts. The main kit contains 120 items, including assorted bandages, pain reliever, antibiotic cream, bandage scissors, antiseptic wipes, a compass, a safety whistle for group hikes, tape, safety pins, and a resuscitation aid. It also includes a mini kit with 32 additional items, perfect for stowing in a backpack, car glove compartment, RV, or your desk at work.
5. Travel First Aid Pouch from QIO CHUANG
Packed in a convenient pouch with a sturdy zipper, this kit will go anywhere you do, making it a great travel first aid kit. It includes an ace bandage, rolled gauze, tape, alcohol and iodine swabs, cotton swabs, assorted bandages, and gauze pads, a sling, safety pins, tweezers, scissors, and a safety whistle. It’s simple to take along, no matter where your day takes you and is also a great wilderness first aid kit if you’re counting every ounce of weigh in your pack.
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6. First Aid Survival Kit from Monoki
In addition to an extensive array of bandages, gauze pads, tape, ointments, pain relievers, scissors, and tweezers, safety pins, swabs, and gloves, this kit provides essential tools for survival. That makes it the perfect wilderness first aid kit, whether you pack it with your camping gear, stow it below decks on a sailboat, add it to the cargo of a small plane or keep it with your travel vehicle. Other equipment includes a fire starter, saber card, utility knife, compass, Army-grade safety whistle, rain poncho, and fishing equipment. Plus, it’s compact enough to wear attached to a backpack.
7. Lightweight First Aid Pouch by General Medi
It is small and lightweight enough to clip onto your belt loop or backpack. But don’t let that fool you. It contains 92 items—everything you need to clean and dress small injuries. Eyewash, blister pads, sterile bandages, and gauze pads, emergency blanket, CPR facemask, gloves, metal tweezers, scissors, safety pins, cotton swabs, and more go with you wherever the day takes you.
8. Hard Shell First Aid Kit From Higher Gear Products
Small, compact, and durable, this inexpensive kit is ideal for travel of all kinds. In addition to extensive triage materials, such s bandages, antiseptic pads, gauze, scissors, and tape, you’ll receive survival materials. These include a sewing kit, glow stick, rescue whistle, compass, emergency blanket, and disposable rain gear. It offers all the essential emergency features should you need to render a companion or yourself immediate care. It’s also suited to wilderness survival in the event you’re separated from your party.
9. Tripworthy’s Compact First Aid Kit
While you can keep it near at hand on the home front, this kit is perfect for hiking, camping, sailing, road-tripping
, and other forms of travel. Neatly stored in a durable fabric bag with carrying handles, the kit contains a variety of bandages, two slings, gauze, scissors, tweezers, tape, a CPR facemask, antiseptic wipes, cotton applicators, safety pins, and other triage essentials. It also offers a rescue whistle, glow stick, compass, disposable poncho, sewing kit, emergency blanket, and a razor blade in the event that you’re separated from your family or friends in the Great Outdoors.
10. Portable PAC Kit from First Aid Only
This more compact professional triage kit is perfect for leisure travel, mobile contracting work, and small businesses. Although it measures only 5.5 inches in height by 8.25 inches in length, the sturdy hard case with a handle is packed with more than 70 essential items, from bandages and burn cream to sterile eye pads and a first aid guide.
If you’re a lover of rugged survival hiking, regularly enjoy getting away from the noise of civilization on your boat or in your camper, having a survival first aid kit that travels with you is vital. However, everyone can benefit from the best first aid kits for home, the office, and out in the field.
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By BCR Staff
July 2019
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